What payments are not included in this amount?

We removed sales or use tax from this amount. Sales tax is collected separately on this screen as federal itemized deduction rules allow you to either deduct sales tax or state and local taxes, but not both. Whichever amount is greater will be deducted.

We removed penalties and interest from this amount as these are not deductible as itemized deductions.

If you included voluntary contributions on your state tax return, be sure not to deduct them twice on your federal itemized deductions as both charitable contributions and taxes paid.